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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
The Reagan Admin, Jesse Helms, and many others had a great deal of sympathy for the staunchly anti-Communist apartheid regime. And for its proxy armies and allies in Mozambique, Angola, Namibia, and Zaire, among other places.
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Yes but the United States has not boycotted Israel (like the US did South Africa) and we did not subsidize South Africa with billions of dollars every year.
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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Other than the "encourage white people from all over the world" part, they did just this. Blacks were expelled and excluded from cities, suburbs, and prime farmland. That's why the "homelands" and the massive slums of Soweto were developed.
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But the emmigration part is the key. In no significant swath of territory in South Africa were the whites in the majority. With Jewish Immigration, the Jews were able so create massive superior numbers in Israel.
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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
The "holy book" distinction is very much on point.
But you seem to forget that the ANC (and the PAC) did a whole lot that would have gotten them branded 'terrorist organizations' today -- and, if I remember correctly, got them called that, or something similar, back in the day. Remember the furor over "necklacing"? And the ANC blew up, or tried to blow up, any number of police stations, restaurants that security forces frequented, oil-from-coal plants, etc.
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Yes - but they didn't go after US civilian airliners.
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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Again, the "holy book" issue, on the one hand, and the world sympathy for the Jewish people on the other, seem to me to be the essential issues.
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so if your final point is that if a Palestinian Nelson Mandella came along that the Jews might be willing to let the palestinians from Israel proper come back into Israel and let the occupied territories go free?
